Piers Linney @pierslinney
Former Dragon (Shark Tank) investor. Implement AI with @joinimplementai. @sen, @atherton_bikes, @anthropyuk 🇬🇧🇧🇧🇺🇦 pierslinney.com UK Joined December 2009-
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Why is it I can use my 4G hotspot on a bullet train at 175 mph between Tokyo and Kyoto right now yet it, and the WiFi, is utterly useless on an @AvantiWestCoast train to Manchester from London ? Does Labour have the right idea to nationalise rail infrastructure to create…
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End of a great week our Digital Symposium @TheShardLondon showcased @modelofficeuk latest #ai business supervisory tech, @MoneyAliveLtd #ai client communication tech & gt presentations including a barnstorming keynote from @Aalokyshukla @pierslinney @joinimplementai 🚀
I think we should talk about whiteness. Let’s do it with reference to mine! (Wasn’t I cute!)
absolute pleasure & privilege to attend #BizX2024 from our host, the very entertaining @StephenMulhern , a very business savvy, forward thinking @pierslinney & the amazing double Olympian @DameKellysTrust -looking forward to tonight’s awards. #beawarded BIG thanks @ActionCOACHUK
Always good to chat to @michaelhayman on any stage ! #10KSME #generationgrowth
Always good to chat to @michaelhayman on any stage ! #10KSME #generationgrowth
@WhyNotChange @pierslinney Had the great opportunity for team members to work with @JoinMultiverse supported by @GS10KSmallBiz developing digital knowledge, would be great to develop similar training for #AI #gs10ksbuk
Room agrees they want to know more about how #AI can grow their businesses. @pierslinney takes the stage to explore the 4th industrial revolution #10ksbuk #generationgrowth
Doesn’t @Starlink ‘In Motion’ work on moving trains @elonmusk ? It works on my van conversion. If so, @AvantiWestCoast needs to put an order in to save hours of potentially productive time. Will take the hit in tunnels.
In #Manchester for a fireside chat focused on #AI with @michaelhayman at the @GoldmanSachs ‘Generation Growth: City Summit’. Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses is a fully-funded, nationwide, small business education programme, in partnership with Said, University of Oxford…
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Another panoramic 4K video filmed from our satellite of the 2024 Solar Eclipse over North America #Eclipse2024
“Six experts predict the jobs that will be wiped out by AI this decade” I think a ‘decade’ is optimistic. mol.im/a/13272553 Read my article on call centres and take a call from a demo AI Call Agent: lnkd.in/ep8NB6Mi @MailOnline @joinimplementai @Aalokyshukla
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Afternoon my emails are quiet so here’s a selfie
Why is it I can use my 4G hotspot on a bullet train at 175 mph between Tokyo and Kyoto right now yet it, and the WiFi, is utterly useless on an @AvantiWestCoast train to Manchester from London ? Does Labour have the right idea to nationalise rail infrastructure to create…
@pierslinney @AvantiWestCoast Unfortunately UK does seem to have very poor infrastructure. I was going to say ‘third world’, but most of the countries that people think of, have better tech infrastructure. 😢
End of a great week our Digital Symposium @TheShardLondon showcased @modelofficeuk latest #ai business supervisory tech, @MoneyAliveLtd #ai client communication tech & gt presentations including a barnstorming keynote from @Aalokyshukla @pierslinney @joinimplementai 🚀
Yes, it was a thing. Colour swatches from “The British Colour Council Dictionary of Colour Standards” in 1951.
There was an awkward moment when my grandad’s second wife went shopping with my mum for curtains and when my mum asked what colour she said “you know that nice n*****r brown”. “You mean peat?” said my mum. “Nooooo not like that that nice n*****r brown!!!” she hadn’t clocked.
I will say though, my dad’s family didn’t bat an eyelid at their marriage. My mum always said it was the white middle class people who were more racist, especially when she turned up in better clothes or a nicer car than them.
So entrenched is class in the UK there was an attitude of “know your place, don’t try and become one of them” in contrast, my mum from a middle class family in Barbados was mixing with everyone from the Windrush generation as their new immigrant status unified them…
Where am I going with this? Well the contrast in attitude between his family and education and my mums side of the family was absolutely stark. There it was all about getting an education (though my mum couldn’t go the best school in Barbados as it was reserved for white people)
They were not. Grumbling, jealous and my dad kind of distanced himself. I saw more of the family in Barbados than I did his in and around Manchester 20 miles away.
He was on track for a double first but just missed because he had to deal with the death of his mother from lung cancer from passive smoking. He landed a good job where he could use his languages - a true social mobility success story you’d think the family would be proud
CN: suicide My dad had spent time in that Navy and was frankly used to upper middle class people, he’d already adjusted his Manchester accent and knew how they operated. His friend was not so lucky. He was bullied mercilessly, and died by suicide.
He was lucky enough to get a scholarship to Trinity Hall to study modern languages. He was one of only TWO state school kids there. Now his dad was right about one thing - the upper calls public schoolboys were horrid to them both. They were “oiks”
Was his dad supportive? Was he fuck! He moaned about him going off to university, asked why he wanted to mix with posh people and thought he should learn a trade and get a job instead.
Now it turned out my dad was very intellectually gifted. Teachers at school spotted this and he was able to get into a Grammar school. From there, he was encouraged to apply to go to Cambridge. His mum was also supportive.
My dad came from what we would now probably call an upper working class family in Manchester. His dad was an engineer - and thus stayed to build things for the war effort in WW2 - and his mum was a supervisor in a factory.
I think we should talk about whiteness. Let’s do it with reference to mine! (Wasn’t I cute!)
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